Japan & Korea × Biotechnology & Drug Discovery

Biotechnology & Drug Discovery in Japan & Korea

21 biotechnology & drug discovery providers across Japan & Korea, publishing 11 APIs.

21 providers 11 published APIs 11 indexed documents

Biotechnology & Drug Discovery across Japan & Korea — 21 providers on the APIs.io network sit in both cohorts, and between them they publish 11 indexed APIs.

6 of the 21 publish at least one machine-readable API; 15 publish nothing indexed at all. That split is the first thing worth reading here — a vertical can be well represented in a market and still have almost no programmable surface.

By Kin Score band: 15 minimal and 6 emerging.

Leading by rating: Tohoku University, AgroDesign Studios, Spiber, aceRNA Technologies, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, Aoruibio, and 15 more.

Region membership is derived from three explicit signals — a provider tag, a provider-name pattern, or a stated headquarters in the provider’s own description. This is a map of stated headquarters, not of markets served.

Providers (21)

Provider Description APIs Rating
Tohoku University Tohoku University is a Japanese national research university in Sendai, founded in 1907, one of the seven former Imperial Universities and a Designated National University. Its ... 5 emerging
AgroDesign Studios AgroDesign Studios (株式会社アグロデザイン・スタジオ) is a Japanese structural-biology startup founded 30 March 2018 by CEO Yuki Nishigaya, based in the University of Tokyo Kashiwa-II campus in... 2 emerging
Spiber Spiber Inc. is a Japanese biotechnology and advanced-materials company founded in 2007 and headquartered in Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. Spiber develops Brewed Protein ... 1 emerging
aceRNA Technologies aceRNA Technologies Co., Ltd. is a Japanese biotechnology venture founded in April 2018 to commercialize the RNA design technology ("RNA Switch") developed in the synthetic RNA ... 1 emerging
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited is a Japanese multinational biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Tokyo, founded in 1781 and listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (4502)... 0 emerging
Aoruibio Aoruibio, operating under the brand AULBIO, is a South Korean biotechnology company focused on innovative microsphere drug delivery technology called EXTENNA. It provides platfo... 1 emerging
1ST Biotherapeutics 1ST Biotherapeutics (1STBIO) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company founded in 2016 and headquartered in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. It discovers and develops novel small-m... 0 minimal
ACTIVON Co., Ltd. ACTIVON Co., Ltd. (엑티브온) is a South Korean green-biotechnology materials company founded in 2009 and headquartered in Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, that develops and manufactures cosmetic... 0 minimal
Bertis Bertis is a South Korean biotechnology company specializing in AI-driven proteomics solutions for precision medicine. It offers integrated platforms for protein analysis, early ... 1 minimal
AI Medical Service AI Medical Service Inc. (AIM) is a Tokyo-based med-tech company founded in September 2017 with the mission to save lives worldwide by eliminating gastrointestinal cancers throug... 0 minimal
Autotelicbio Autotelicbio is a biotechnology company focused on developing innovative therapies for central nervous system and rare diseases. Based in South Korea, the firm aims to improve p... 0 minimal
Aculys Aculys Pharma, Inc. is a Japanese clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on neurological and psychiatric diseases where there is high unmet medical need. The company w... 0 minimal
AbTis AbTis Co., Ltd. (앱티스) is a South Korean biotechnology company founded in 2016 and headquartered in Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, inside the Dong-A Socio Holdings R&D Center. It develo... 0 minimal
Biodesignlab Bio Design Lab is a biotechnology and bioengineering company based in Seoul, South Korea. It creates and develops highly potent biopharmaceuticals using synthetic biology and sy... 0 minimal
Astonsci Aston Sci. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative medicines to meet unmet medical needs. The company presents its pipeline, science focus... 0 minimal
AriBio AriBio, operating under the ARIBIO Group, integrates biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and energy/data center infrastructure technologies to drive Korea's future core indu... 0 minimal
ADEL, Inc. ADEL, Inc. (주식회사 아델) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, founded in 2016 as a spin-off from the Asan Medical Center / University o... 0 minimal
Cellincells CellinCells is a Korean biotechnology company focused on regenerative medicine. It develops organoid‑based therapeutics and a 3D Tissue Reforming Technology Platform that levera... 0 minimal
Plantner Plantner Inc. (PLANTNER) is a South Korean biotechnology company specializing in the extraction and manufacturing of alginic acid, a biodegradable marine-derived biomaterial. Op... 0 minimal
Autotacbio Autotacbio (AUTOTAC Bio) is a biotechnology company developing first‑in‑class therapeutics based on its proprietary AUTOTAC (Autophagy‑Targeting Chimera) platform. The company f... 0 minimal
Aisilk AI Silk Corporation develops innovative conductive fibers using a unique dyeing technique, creating electrodes that reduce discomfort, inflammation, and measurement failures in ... 0 minimal

Indexed API documents (11)

Two numbers, both real: these providers publish 11 APIs as their own documents, which the catalog indexes split one-per-resource into 11 documents.

jMorp GraphQL API (Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization)

Tohoku University
Public, anonymous, read-only GraphQL API for jMorp — the Japanese Multi Omics Reference Panel published by the Tohoku Medical Megabank Or...

TOUR Institutional Repository OAI-PMH

Tohoku University
OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for TOUR (TOhoku University Repository). The collection, the departmental set hierarchy and the ...

GakuNin Shibboleth Identity Provider

Tohoku University
Tohoku University's own SAML 2.0 Identity Provider, registered in GakuNin — the Japanese academic access-management federation operated b...

Crossref DOI Registration Membership

Tohoku University
Three Tohoku University units are Crossref members registering DOIs under their own prefixes, verified against api.crossref.org on 2026-0...

ROR Organization Record

Tohoku University
Tohoku University's Research Organization Registry record, ROR ID 01dq60k83, carrying the English, romanized and Japanese names and the c...

AgroBox Site MCP

AgroDesign Studios
A live, unauthenticated remote Model Context Protocol endpoint served at the AgroBox structural-biology service site. The server is the W...

AgroDesign.SHOP Site MCP

AgroDesign Studios
The second live, unauthenticated remote MCP endpoint, served at the AgroDesign.SHOP storefront where the company sells lab-automation rob...

Spiber Website (WordPress REST)

Spiber
The public WordPress REST API (wp-json) of the Spiber website at spiber.xsrv.jp/api: the route index of the site's content management sys...

aceRNA Technologies Site MCP

aceRNA Technologies
A live, anonymously reachable Model Context Protocol endpoint served from aceRNA Technologies' own host and advertised in the site's llms...

AULBIO API

Aoruibio
API documentation for AULBIO platform services.

Bertis API

Bertis
API for Bertis services (no public spec found)

Other industries in Japan & Korea

Artificial Intelligence 58 E-Commerce Platform 32 Financial Technology 23 Healthcare 23 Education & EdTech 22 Data & Analytics 21 Digital Health & Telehealth 20 IoT & Connected Devices 19 Industrial 17 Retail 17 Mobility & Fleet 16 Payments & Money Movement 16 All of Japan & Korea →

Biotechnology & Drug Discovery elsewhere

North America 324 Greater China 80 Europe 57 United Kingdom & Ireland 18 DACH (Germany · Austria · Switzerland) 14 France & Iberia 12 India & South Asia 6 Southeast Asia 5 Benelux 4 MENA (Middle East & North Africa) 4 Italy & Southern Europe 3 Middle East 3 All of Biotechnology & Drug Discovery →

This page is the intersection of two independently computed cohorts: Japan & Korea and Biotechnology & Drug Discovery. A provider appears here only when it is already a member of both. Japan & Korea membership is matched on tag, name pattern, stated HQ, so this is a floor rather than a census — coverage gaps show up here as small numbers, not as absent pages.

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